Garment hanger guard



May 30, H B TILLERY GARMENT HANGER GUARD Filed Feb. 26, 1948 IN V EN TOR,

- HuZeJZ B. Tzlllergy,

ATTORNEY.

Patented May 30, 1950 UNITED STATES FATZENT ()FFICE GARMENT HANGER GUARD Hubert B. Tillery, Kansas City, Mo., assignor of one-l1alf to L. D. Tillery, Kansas City, Mo.

2 Claims.

My invention relates to pants guards for application to the well known wire garment hangers and it has for its objects:

1. To provide a guard formed of heavy paper or card board and shaped to provide two rigid side rolls united by a somewhat springy connection which is designed to lie over the horizontal rod of the clothes hanger.

2. To provide a guard of the character stated that will not accidentally fall off the hanger when once positioned on the same and which guard will naintain its shape at all times.

Other objects will in part be obvious and in part be pointed out hereinafter.

To the attainment of the aforesaid objects and ends invention still further resides in the novel details of construction, combination and arrangement of parts, all of which will be first fully described in the following detailed description, and then be particularly pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a garment hanger with my invention applied.

2 is a detail perspective view on a larger scale.

Fig. 3 is a detail view of an end portion of the strip of board from which the guard is made, the view being on about the scale of Fig. 1.

In the drawing in which like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures, i represents the well known wire coat hanger and G the guard that comprises my invention.

The guard is composed of heavy paper or of suitable paper board of the weight necessary to serve its purpose.

In making my improved guard, adhesive is applied to the longitudinal sides from the outer edges 5 to about the lines 4 in Fig. 3. The sides are then rolled up spirally by turning dies and heat is applied to dry the adhesive, thereby forming two parallel contacting rigid tubular rods 3, 3, connected by a bridge portion 2 of a single thickness of material.

The ends of the bridge portion are longitudinally slotted as at 6 and 6 and are provided with wire seats I and l respectively.

The slot (:3 is preferably sufiiciently elongated to enable the guard to be placed on the hanger with the ends of the guard projecting beyond the hanger as shown in Fig. 1. The rods 3, 3 are closely adjacent and together with the curved bridge 2 present a smooth non-angular surface over which trousers can be draped without danger of creasing the same or leaving hanger marks.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, it, is thought that the construction, operation and advantages of the invention will readily appear to those skilled in the art.

What I claim is:

1. A garment hanger guard comprising two straight rigid tubular rods and a bridge connecting said rods, the rods being composed of at least two thicknesses of material, said bridge having a hanger receiving slot at one end and being formed of a single thickness of material and being integral with the rods, the guard being of greater length than the length of the hanger to which it is to be applied, by virtue of all of which the guard may be sprung into place and held against longitudinal movement along the hanger.

2. A garment hanger guard formed from a single thickness of material, and including two tubular rods and a bridge member connecting said rods, said rods each comprising at least two concentric layers of material the adjacent surfaces of which layers being united by a layer of glue, one end of said bridge being provided with a hanger receiving slit.

I-IUBERT B. TILLERY.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,781,583 Hodgson Nov. 11, 1930 2,089,077 Todd et a1 Aug. 3, 1937 2,448,282 Schmitt Aug. 311, 1948 

